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fire wall with holes

our college seems to have a fire wall which blocks acess to certain sites like those with MP3 int he url or stuff anyway the thing is that it is so simple to bypass it it has become a joke infact a simple way to view PRon is to go to yahoo search for vids using this term
"hot"."girl" and turn safe search off viola we ahve somthing which would freak out the admin

the fire wall seems to work as follows if certain words appear in the url of a site acess is denied I'm wondering should i tell the admin about it or not after all should i tll them how ppl manage to bypass the **firewall** or let it be ignore it and continue normal life
any advice will be appreciated also what are the different firewalls that can be used to prevent acess cause this one sux bad

any way thanx in advance

anything that doesn\'t kill you or your dreams only makes you stronger

I would tell the admin, but that's just me. I agree with other posters, however, that you shouldn't be assuming that this is a firewall misconfiguration. However, given the fact that are somehow blocking access to some sites, I think that it's reasonable to assume that they don't want students looking at certain sites on the university network. If students are able to bypass their controls, they would probably want to know about it.

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